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How it will happen here

By on September 11, 2008
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This is how the left would destroy America. The left seeks to use the government to take over more aspects of our economy in the name of fairness, equality and class warfare. This creates fully predictable side-effects however as supply and demand are not legislated forces as they believe. Once the government creates these shortages, shocks, and short-circuits of the market they in turn claim that this state of affairs requires them to take more control and so on.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Faced with shortages of foods, building materials and other staples, President Hugo Chávez is intensifying state control of the Venezuelan economy through a new wave of takeovers of private companies and the creation of government-controlled ventures with allies like Cuba and Iran.

The moves come just months after voters rejected a referendum to give the president sweeping constitutional power over the economy and public institutions, leading to new accusations that Mr. Chávez is more interested in consolidating power than in fixing Venezuela’s problems. ~nytimes.com

It’s a slippery slope we have so far avoided but that doesn’t mean that it can’t happen here. In fact Chavez is betting that it will happen here which is why he wants Obama to win.

Direct democracy

By on September 2, 2008
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Left-wing lunacy is in fact the definition of ‘direct democracy’.

Near the start of the march, two women and a young man secured themselves with chains to a car that obstructed traffic.

“I would like a world of direct democracy,” said one man, who gave his name only as Alex, as he was led away by officers.

A larger group of about 200 protesters dressed in black roamed through the streets of downtown St. Paul, shouting and chanting and throwing street signs and concrete planters into the roads. Many of them wore black bandanas across their faces and some wore black balaclavas.

At one point, a police officer grabbed one of the youths. Others wrested him away, then appeared to knock the officer to the ground. On one knee, the officer released an arc of pepper spray that gushed into the air in a thick cloud.

The crowd backed off. A young man scattered bundles of nails secured with duct tape in the street. Over the next 40 minutes or so, the crowd weaved through streets, sometimes pursued or approached by police, but often eluding groups of police officers or sheriffs deputies.

Some members of the group smashed windows while others objected.

“Is this really protesting?” a young woman shouted, apparently in anger. ~http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Direct democracy = disruption and destruction. This is what Obama wants to bring us. Social upheaval is in fact ‘change’. Revolutions are in fact ‘change’. This does not mean the changes would be good are beneficial. All evidence points to the contrary. The left’s idea of change will not benefit society at all and is certainly meant to begin dismantling American capitalism.

Delegates and passersby hurried out of the way as they saw the group approaching. Projectiles bounced off the windows of the U.S. Bank Center, but a young man used a hammer with a yellow handle to smash a window of the First National Bank.

Others in the crowd pried up red paving stones and used them as weapons, and some protesters smashed windows at Macy’s and a police car window.

The crowd soon dispersed, but apparently with the intent of coming back later in the day. It was not immediately clear whether there were injuries or arrests. ~http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

How Dems spend

By on July 5, 2008
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This is how Democrats spend money. Like drunken sailors. (My apologies to any drunken sailors who might take offense.)

Some of the Democratic missteps started soon after planning for the event began. The Democratic National Convention Committee decided not to take cheap office space and instead rented top-quality offices in downtown Denver at $100,000 a month, only to need less than half the space, which it then filled with rental furniture at $50,000 a month. And in a costly misstep, the Denver host committee, early on, told corporate donors that their contributions were not tax-deductible, rather than to encourage donations by saying that the tax-exempt application was pending and expected to be approved.  ~nytimes.com

It’s a good thing that Republicans gave up on fiscal responsibility and let Democrats take over congress eh?

Hilterian propaganda

By on July 1, 2008
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Just when I thought that Democrats couldn’t be any more venally idiotic Harry Reid goes and opens his mouth.

Harry Reid: Energy companies use “the old Hitler lie”

He accused the coal industry of using “the old Hitler lie — when you say things long enough people start believing them.”

The comparison of the coal industry to Nazis came before his keynote speech, which began and ended with references to “the Jewish sages of yesteryear.”

A statement worthy of Goebbels himself. Corrupt Democrat Senator Reid makes us all sick with the perpetuation of his culture of corruption.

Democrats seem bent on destroying America. Knocking all our energy supplies out from under us will effectively cripple our economy. This is fine with the left because capitalism is the enemy. Our economy is based on oppression and exploitation according to them and stopping that is worth destroying the country because something better (ie ‘change’) will replace it.

This isn’t some fringe character, some crazy uncle that one has in the attic. This is one of the Democratic Party’s leadership explaining why he and his party will never allow for extensive increases in domestic supply for coal and oil, the two leading sources of energy in the US, along with natural gas. “Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country, it’s ruining our world. We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.” ~hotair.com

We can go back to Harry Reid’s inadvertent admission that repeating (the global warming) lies will eventually make people believe it. The corrupt Senator sure knows his Nazi propaganda tactics doesn’t he?

Nationalizing Industries

By on June 25, 2008
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The libs are feeling their oats. After all, they control two-thirds of the Federal Government and reasonably expect their messiah to seize control of the third in the next election, why not begin explaining what you will do with all that power? Like nationalizing the oil industry and the internet for starters.

Should the Internet be owned and maintained by the government, just like the highways? Vint Cerf, the “father of the Internet” and Google’s Internet evangelist, made this radical suggestion while he was sitting next to me on a panel yesterday about national tech policy at the Personal Democracy Forum.

…I tried to press Mr. Cerf on how exactly such a scheme would work without making Internet service even less competitive than it is today. He offered that the government could put the actual running of the service out to competitive bidding. It’s still a bad idea.  ~techcrunch.com

There’s no better way to destroy something than to nationalize it. Still the libs see this as a great idea most of the time and they’re getting more vocal.

Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.  ~foxnews.com

HotAir has video of Maxine Waters and another rube Dem explaining their penchent for pure marxist thievery. Wow. Jaw dropper. Democrats believe this?

Hugh Hewitt quotes James Madison

“In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.  Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. . . . Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.”

Problems facing our socialism

By on June 24, 2008
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The fact that Obama’s father was a socialist should remind us that socialism has rendered Africa a continent completely destitute and that as an example of what an ideology can do socialism is a danger to be avoided at all costs.

What, if any, of the ideals of the father does the son aspire to? Perhaps Dreams from my father would illuminate that question.

Well, Barak Obama has said explicitly that, “The Time Has Come for Universal Health Care” And specifically he’s said that, “Plans that tinker and halfway measures now belong to yesterday.” This certainly sounds like socialism to me.

Obama says that the government can modernize healthcare and make it cost less and in the process give you more quality care– what planet is he living on? Government has never been a vehicle for modernization or cost savings. Just look at the Senate restaurants and how efficiently they were run. All one needs to do is go to the DMV or any government office nationwide to see what kind of efficient service you receive from government.

Obama to raise taxes

By on March 27, 2008
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We all know that raising taxes is a central plank of any democrat playbook. The rich must be punished for their evil capitalist ways after all.

In an interview in conjunction with his big economic speech in New York, Senator Obama tells CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo he favors increasing the capital-gains tax rate.

Bartiromo reported after her interview: “Right now, as you know, the cap gains tax is at 15 percent. He has yet to give us a specific number. How high he wants that number to go? He has said, and he told me today, that he won’t go above 28 percent. So we are talking about the possibility of a doubling in the capital gains tax. He was averaging at about 25 percent.” ~politico.com

HillaryScare

By on February 3, 2008
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Via Flopping Aces… I love it when politicians are honest. It usually doesn’t last long though and you can be sure that she’ll backtrack and ‘clarify’ this remark.

WASHINGTON – Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans. ~news.yahoo.com

I’m sure that’s not all she’d be willing to garnish our wages for. There are undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of things that would be for ‘our own good’ that need funding.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC’s “This Week,” she said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.”

Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, “it will be affordable for everyone.”

Clinton also suggested that Obama would be more susceptible to Republican attack ads in a general election because he has not been scrutinized for years as she has.

“I’ve been through the Republican attacks over and over again,” she said. When Obama was elected to the Senate from Illinois in 2004, she said, he “didn’t face anyone who ran attack ads” comparable to those aimed at her.

That’s what Democrats (socialists) mean when they say, “we’re all in this together.” It means that everyone shares the pain for their ungodly utopian socialist schemes.

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